Schiller's Piano, co-created by Laurence Osborn and Zubin Kanga

Zubin Kanga; Laurence Osborn

Schiller's Piano, co-created by Laurence Osborn and Zubin Kanga

Zubin Kanga (Performer), Laurence Osborn (Composer)

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This is a major Cyborg Soloists output, co-created by Laurence Osborn and Zubin Kanga. It is a concerto for piano/keyboards and chamber orchestra. The keyboards use samples of piano construction, which change across the piece. The work is a response to the construction of a replica of Schiller's Piano by prisoners at Buchenwald Concentration camp, and responds to the way Schiller's poetry and ideals were reappropriated by fascism. It also relates to the memory of the survivors of the camp, and was created in close collaboration with the Buchenwald Memorial, and features field recordings made in the workshop where the prisoners built the piano.

The work was performed in Manchester and London (at the Southbank Centre) with Manchester Collective (one of the UK's leading ensembles). It had a combined audience of 1000 people, and was covered in national press, including The Telegraph, which stated "the piece was remarkable for the exquisite tact with which Osborn approached its emotive theme, a quality echoed in Kanga's self-abegnating performance"

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 2024

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